The New Cairo Misdemeanor Court upheld on Thursday a suspended one-year prison sentence for former head of the Central Auditing Organisation (CAO), Hisham Geneina, and fined him EGP 20k on charges of spreading false information, Al Masry Al Youm reports. Charges against Geniena were brought to court in 2016 after he had alleged government corruption had cost taxpayers some EGP 600 bn between 2012 and 2015. Geneina is currently serving a separate five-year sentence handed to him in 2018 by a military court on charges of spreading false news related to the armed forces and domestic affairs.

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